St. Joseph Saints Hoodie - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - Missouri Size:XL and desert circuits like the

and desert circuits like the Sunset League carried the game through the Southwest in the years before television changed the entertainment landscape

466 major league hits

and in 1924 they would again make the playoff final

The Western Association was one of the longer-running circuits in this era

Perry Bellamy

St. Joseph Saints Hoodie - Vintage Defunct Baseball Teams - Missouri Size:XL and desert circuits like theThe Saints were the name St. Joseph, Missouri kept coming back to. The city fielded Saints teams in the Western League across three separate stretches, with an interlude as the Drummers in the 1910s, when Hall of Famer Dazzy Vance passed through on his way up. The most famous Saint of all arrived in 1930, when the club spent a season as a St. Louis Cardinals affiliate and a 20 year old farmhand named Dizzy Dean won 17 games on his way to becoming the